Buy the CD and find out for yourself mate. And help make B&F a lickle money at the same time

Actually I'm not at home right now but I can say for sure that the 12" is a vocal plus dub, with another (perhaps shorter?) dub on the B-side. There ain't no DJ on there.

I don't want to get too technical about small details, but I think this one, as with most, is very slightly different to the version on the 'Chantells & Friends' CD. But not by much.

Our hosts could probably confirm or deny it, but my guess would be that both Roy Francis and the B&F crew used the original 7" vocals and dubs to put together their extended versions. Two people doing this on separate occasions are unlikely to produce exactly the same result, which is why I think the differences I noticed were mainly where the vocal cuts across to the dub.

Then again, as I said I'm not at home to check - so that may just be the outpouring of a defective memory.

BTW one thing I am sure of is the way the backing track on my original Waiting In The Park 12" swings across to the left channel, whilst the DJ vocal is heard exclusively through the right-hand one. Everyone else says their copies don't do this!

According to the sleeve notes on the "Chantells & Friends" disc, "Assemble Not Thyself" is taken from the original 12-inch single version. Only "Send Another Moses", "Jah Jah New Garden" & "Path I Have Taken" are made from A & B sides of the 7-inch singles.

Pluto wrote:According to the sleeve notes on the "Chantells & Friends" disc, "Assemble Not Thyself" is taken from the original 12-inch single version.

This "Assemble Not Thyself" tune is the dog's bollocks, as they say

Fair enough Pluto, I was probably thinking of some of the other Phase One singles.

And sorry for missing the most important bit DD - "Is it any good?"

Yes it certainly is! It's very percussive, especially on the dub, and I think it's slightly different to the usual Phase One sound. But not in an inferior way - just like sometimes you get a track on an album has been recorded in another studio so the atmosphere's a bit different.

The only reason I didn't go mental on it when the CD came out was because I already knew it so well. I have just one remaining old C90 mix tape of reggae played by John Peel (RIP) on his 1977-78 shows, and this one is on there.

That reminds me, I'll have to dig it out and ask the Baffers (in a separate post) for help on the tracks from that tape I still haven't identified 27 years later!

it seems to me this was issued at least twice on 12", because i did some transcription of lyrics for it and it turned out there was a slight difference between the 12" i was using and what was in b&f's hands. very slight lyrical difference at at least one point and i believe it was steve barrow who pointed out i must be listening to a later 12" than the original they evidently had. phase one was kinda funny this way.